title: Neuritogenesis in mouse NB2a/d1 neuroblastoma cells: triggering by calcium influx and involvement of actin and tubulin dynamics.
abstract: Ionophore (A23187)-mediated calcium influx induced rapid neurite outgrowth in NB2a/d1 cells. This outgrowth was prevented by colchicine but not by cycloheximide, demonstrating a requirement for microtubule assembly but not de novo synthesis. Cytochalasin B induced rapid, colchicine-sensitive outgrowth, indicating that depolymerization of the submembrane actin network may be sufficient to allow neurite outgrowth under conditions which permitted microtubule assembly. Neurites induced by serum-deprivation or calcium influx were rapidly retracted by colchicine unless cytochalasin B was first added, indicating that the actin network may provide the retractile force which mediates neurite retraction following microtubule depolymerization. We conclude that neurite outgrowth can be initiated in NB2a/d1 cells by calcium influx, and may involve alterations in actin and microtubule dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Ralph Lowell Laboratories, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02178.
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Shea
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D003078:Colchicine / Q000494:pharmacology; D003513:Cycloheximide / Q000494:pharmacology; D003571:Cytochalasin B / Q000494:pharmacology; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051379:Mice; D008870:Microtubules / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000473:pathology*; D014404:Tubulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D014404:Tubulin; D000001:Calcimycin; D003571:Cytochalasin B; D003513:Cycloheximide; D003078:Colchicine; D002118:Calcium